Saturday, January 15, 2011

In my long history of forming and expressing opinions about storytelling, the most frequent complaint has been: "why does he talk?"

Why should I talk? Why should I tell you my story? For you it is another story. For your amusement good sirs, I should reveal my triumphs and tribulations, my nadirs and insecurities? To what end? It is not that I do not want to. Everyone wants to. Only to very few and in very few occasions when one is convinced it makes sense to.